This arrangement of Borsalino has evolved in my hands since the late 70s. The original song was written by Claude Jean Harry Bolling for the movie “Borsalino,” a 1970 film directed by Jacques Deray, starring Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Rouvel. I give credit to my friend Dan Johnson who originally came up with […]

The words Haba Na Haba are from a proverb which translates to “little by little your pot will be filled.” Essentially, the saying means if you take things little by little or a day at a time then you’ll get what you need. My inspiration for this song came to me through Liz Watkins, who […]

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Now let’s work on your inversions by playing through this exercise together. It’s important that you put in the time with your metronome first so that you can play through the exercise in time and the notes ring clear. Use this playalong video as a test: if you can play along with me at this […]

In this video we’ll talk a bit about the importance of knowing inversions for boomchick bass. This is an important technique to get under your fingers and the time you spend working on it now will prove very useful once we get further into the repertoire part of the course. We’ll also learn an exercise […]

Hi, I’m Tommy Emmanuel and welcome to Fingerstyle Breakthroughs. In Fingerstyle Milestones we learned some essential fingerstyle skills, and in this course I’ll be focusing on teaching 11 songs and how to perform them. I’ll also show you some new techniques that are needed to master these songs, such as inversions for learning boomchick patterns, […]